Donald Trump continues to take advantage of the presidency of USA to do business. Trump Media & Technologythe platform’s parent company Truth Socialannounced this Thursday that it will merge with the nuclear start-up TAE Technologiesan agreement valued at 6,000 million dollars, just over 5,100 million euros.
The deal, which will close in mid-2026, opens the door for shareholders of each company to take control of about half of the new corporation. Its management will be two-headed and shared between the former Republican congressman Devin Nunesde Trump Media & Technology, y Michl Binderbauercurrent executive director of TAE.
The company of social networks Trump has had a difficult year. So far in 2025, its shares have plummeted almost 70%. Even so, the agreement points to a revaluation that would allow part of that stock market hit to be reduced.
The energy of the future?
If approved, the acquisition will allow the Trump family to enter a potentially lucrative market such as nuclear fusion. As with the sun and other stars, the union of several atomic nuclei allows the release of an enormous amount of energy. The development of a technology that allows this process to be replicated in a controlled manner to generate electricity abundantly and safely.
For now there are no commercial plants capable of producing this type of energy. However, that promise of the future explains that many investors and technology moguls like Sam Altman, Bill Gates o Peter Thiel are putting their money in projects to develop these capabilities. Fusion energy particularly appeals to the manufacturing industry. artificial intelligencewho sees in this hypothetical source the panacea to resolve the gigantic energy thirst that requires training and deploying generative models such as ChatGPT at a time when USA compete with China for the supremacy of IA.
Although Trump stripped away all his actions in Trump Media & Technology, whose approximate value was about $4 billion, these are in a trust controlled by his son, Donald Trump Jr. In addition to his eldest son and Nunes, the board of shareholders that runs the company is made up of allies and former members of the US government such as Robert Lighthizer. Before, personalities such as the conspiracy theorist Kash Patelcurrent director of FBIo Linda McMahonwrestling mogul turned current US Secretary of Education.
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